Method to mirror a single partition across the net

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Wed Nov 5 20:45:50 PST 2008


On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:35:41PM -0600, Brandon Valentine wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Steve Kargl
> <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > I've read the Handbook's chapter on GEOM, gmirror(1), geom(8), ggated(8),
> > and ggatec(8), and I've search the web for a solution to the following
> > issue.
> >
> > I would like to mirror a single partition on system A to a partition on
> > system B.  It would appear a combination of gmirror and ggated would work,
> > but I haven't found any example on setting up two systems.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> You may find the following two articles helpful:
> 
> http://phaq.phunsites.net/2006/08/11/realtime-file-system-replication-on-freebsd/
> http://blackholemedia.net/blog/2008-01-02-Using_gmirror_ggate_and_freevrrpd_to_create_a_high_availability_enviroment.html
> 

Thanks for the pointers.  The first article looks very promising for my needs.

-- 
Steve


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